Rosangela Santos

Rosângela Santos

Rosângela Santos at the 2015 Military World Games
Personal information
Full name	Rosângela Cristina (de) Oliveira Santos
Nationality	Brazil
Born	(1990-12-20) December 20, 1990 (age 26) Washington, DC, USA
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100m: 11.04s (2015) 200m: 22.77s (2015)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Brazil Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 4x100 m relay Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara 100 m 2011 Guadalajara 4×100 m relay Ibero-American Championships 2012 Barquisimeto 100 m 2012 Barquisimeto 4×100 m relay Pan American Junior Championships 2007 São Paulo 100 m 2007 São Paulo 4×100 m relay Military World Games 2015 Mungyeong 100 m 2015 Mungyeong 4 x 100 m relay 2015 Mungyeong 200 m
Updated on 8 October 2015.

100m: 11.04s (2015)

Rosângela Cristina Oliveira Santos (born December 20, 1990) is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Brazil.

Santos represented Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Lucimar de Moura, Thaissa Presti and Rosemar Coelho Neto. In their first round heat they placed third behind Belgium and Great Britain, but in front of Nigeria. Their time of 43.38 seconds was the fifth time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they sprinted to a time of 43.14 seconds and the fourth place behind Nigeria, missing out on the bronze medal with 0.10 seconds. However, in 2016, the IOC stripped Russia of its Gold Medal due to doping, meaning Rosângela and her teammates inherited the bronze medal.

At Daegu 2011, Rosangela went to the 4 × 100 m final, ranking eighth - with a new South American record (42.92) at the preliminary.

Integrating the delegation that disputed the 2011 Pan American Games, in Guadalajara, she won the gold medal in the 100m, beating her personal record with a time of 11.22 seconds. She was only the second Brazilian in history to win this race in Pan Am Games. She also won the 4x100 meters relay alongside Vanda Gomes, Franciela Krasucki and Ana Claudia Lemos, with a time of 42.85, breaking the South American record.